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Thomas Yeo (1789–1861) was baptised at Bideford to parents John Yeo and Catherine Ash. He worked as a saddler, and married his first wife Mary Woolacott at Bideford in 1825. They had three children:
– Thomas Yeo (see below)
– John Woolacott Yeo
– Francis Ash Yeo.
Mary died in 1823, and Thomas married Elizabeth Hodge at Fremington three years later [note 1]. Their two children were born in Bideford [note 2]:
– Mary Jane Yeo (1837–1861)
– William Yeo (1839–1841).
Thomas Yeo (1827–1890, son of Thomas Yeo and Mary Woolacott) was baptised at a nonconformist chapel in Bideford. He married Selina Allen Phillips in 1853; they had four children:
– Thomas Winter Yeo (1854–1900, married Frances David, three children)
– Frank Woollacott Yeo (see below)
– Selina Mary Yeo (born 1859, died as an infant)
– Selina Mary Yeo (1861–1885, married William Matthews).
Thomas Winter Yeo (1854–1900, son of Thomas Yeo and Selina Allen Phillips) married Frances David. They had three children:
– Annie Maud Yeo (1881–1952)
– Beatrice Mary Yeo (1887–1952)
– Arthur Cory Yeo (1893–1932, married Gladys Mary Gwendoline Wilkins [note 3]).
Frank Woollacott Yeo (1856–1918, son of Thomas Yeo and Selina Allen Phillips) married Mary Ann Moira Smith in 1880. They had three children:
– Selina Mary Yeo (born 1886 in Cardiff)
– Frank Thomas Yeo (see below)
– Bretta Marian Yeo (1882–1975, married Bert Stanley Cording in 1912).
Frank Thomas Yeo (born 1888, son of Frank Woollacott Yeo and Mary Ann Moira Smith) married Lucy Turner in 1914. They had two children:
– William Francis Yeo (1915–2002, married Doris Williams in 1942 [note 4])
– Lawrence Sylvester Yeo.
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Notes
1. Thomas’s death certificate gives his place of death as ‘High Street’. His age is recorded as 73, though he was probably 72. Elizabeth was baptised at Littleham (north Devon) in 1797; her 1857 death certificate gives her place of death as ‘High Street’.
2. The 1851 census for Bideford records Thomas at 1 Allhalland Street, a master saddler aged 61, with his wife Elizabeth (54), son Francis Ash Yeo (18, an attorney’s writing clerk) and daughter Mary Jane Yeo (14).
3. Née Andrews, born 1897, widow of Mervyn Sydney Wilkins. Gladys later married Ralph Haylock.
4. Marriage registered at Salford. Bill and Doris appear not to have had children.